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        22.8  0.4 Galt,* end of road at outskirts.  Turn right and take first left-
             hand road.
                 Sharp left before this turn leads to business district. 0.2 mile.
             Cross RR 23.6.
        28.0  5.2 Irregular 4-corners; bear left with pavement.  Cross RR at
             McConnell Sta. 30.8.  Thru Elk Grove 34.9.  Pass state fair
             grounds on right 45.2.
                           Cross RRs 46.6-47.5—now on P St.
                                   Interest, page  196.
                 Sacramento City Map and Points of
        48.5 20.5 7th St.  ; meeting cross-trolley, turn right.
        48.8  0.3 SACRAMENTO, 7th & K Sts., P. O. on far right.
               HOTELS—Traveler’s Hotel, 5th & Jay Sts.
              GARAGES—Goodrich, Ballard & Rouse, 7th & M Sts
              SUPPLIES—Bowman Auto Supply  Co., 11th & Jay Sts
             Note (a) Route 5—Stockton to Woodbridge, Cal.—16.9 m.
                     Reverse Note  (a) on Route 141.
         Via Cherokee and Lodi.  All asphalt and macadam paved.
         The route is a picturesque one, leading thru the largest vineyards of the San Joaquin
        valley.  This is a scenic option to the regular route.
        0.0  0.0 STOCKTON, Weber Ave. & San Joaquin St.  Go east with trolley two blocks
            on Weber Ave.
             California St.; meeting cross-trolley, turn left six blocks.
        0.6  0.5  St.; turn right, leaving trolley.  Cross RRs  0.9, shortly picking up K
        H H E. Park
            trolley again.                    °
        1.3  0.7 End of road; turn left with trolley.
        I't  91 £ight-hand diagonal road; bear right with trolley.  Cross RR 1.7.
            Rrominen t fork, roadhouse in center; bear left with trolley.
        o o
        3.3  1.2 Left-hand diagonal road; bear  left with pavement.  Cross  electric RR at
            Cherokee Sta. 4.1 and bear right along same for short distance.  Thru 4-corners
            8.1.  Thru Live Oak 9.5.
        13.2  9.9 E. Pine St., sign on far right; turn left.
        13.9  0.7 Lodi*  E. Pine & Sacramento Sts. just beyond RR at sta.
                                         Meeting trolley
            turn right.  Pass P. O. on right 14.0.
          0.2 Rockford St., sign on far right; turn left with branch trolley,
        If 1 2  0.1 N. Church St.; turn right away from trolley.
        if
              of street = turn left. Passing Smiths lake beyond.
        if 2                         Cross RR 15.9.
          1.5 Right-hand road; turn right.
        if"               Cross RR at cemetery  16.5.
        16.9  0.6 WOODBRIDGE.
                 Diagonally right is Route 5 to Sacramento.
          Route 7—Stockton to Angels Camp, Cal.—54.2 m.
                       Reverse Route 8.
         Via San Andreas.  Macadam and concrete highway to Linden; next 25 miles under
        construction when covered by Blue Book car; balance  dirt and gravel  in alternate
        stretches.
        .-MILEAGE-^
          Distance
        Total Between  For this and other exits see City Map, page 66.
        Mileage Points
        0.0  0.0 STOCKTON, Weber Ave. & San Joaquin St.  Go east with
             trolley on Weber Ave.  Cross RRs 0.5-0.6.  Thru 4-corners 0.7.
        0.8  0.8 Sierra Nevada St., turn left away from trolley.
        1.0  0.2 Fremont St., just beyond large brick school; turn right.  Cross
             trolley 1.4.  Thru diagonal 4-corners 5.8; prominent 4-corners
             8.4 and 4-corners 11.5.
        12.2 11.2 Linden, P. O. on left.  Straight thru. Thru Bellota 16.8.  Cross
             RR 16.9.
       17.1  4.9 Right-hand diagonal road; bear right with poles.
        *Galt, Cal.  (pop.  1,000,  alt. 52  ft.), a village  3,000 cars of these grapes are shipped annually
       of Sacramento county,  is  26 miles south  of  from  this town  alone.  Over  2,500 acres are
       Sacramento.  It has vineyards of table grapes,  planted to table grapes exclusively. The town
       and here the Flame Tokays mature  to per-  of Lodi was established by the railroad com-
                            pany in  1869 in response to a petition of in-
       fection.  Good permanent roads radiate  in all
                            habitants accompanied by an
       directions. From here the lateral good road  offer of a half
                            mile square of land on which to lay out the
       of  the  California highway system  will run  site  for the  town. The
                                       offer was
                                            accepted,
       to Jackson in Amador county.  This road will  the town  laid by the railroad company and
       pass the Preston School of Industry, located  named Mokelumne  Station,  but  this name
       at lone.             being too similar to others in the state, was
        "Lodi, Cal. (pop. 4,500, alt. 52 ft.), is 12 miles  afterwards changed. to Loai. The Mokelumne
       north of Stockton, and the center of a great  river  flows about  three-quarters  of  a  mile
       grape growing country.  The Elaming Tokay  north  of  the  town. Watermelons have  for
       is the special variety of the place and about  years been a specialty of the place,
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